[–] 29 points 1 month ago (1 child)

you might want to look up "colonization", the British, Spanish, Portuguese, etc colonized much of Africa, drained it of resources, then that same wealth made its way to the US which was also a British colony after they killed and stole the land from the natives. Colonizers who then min maxed it by going all in on slavery, then when the motherland was asking for too much in taxes from their profits they broke away. The US was built with blood and money.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    And riddled with Russian spyware, but that's the icing on the cake

    Russian ownership of OPENOFFICE is why this Euro fork exists.

    edit: meant ONLYOFFICE. too many Os out there

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago

    that feels somewhat disingenuous considering labour is trying to take back privatised services back into public control, they're doing a shitty job at it but they do have British rail and I think there was one other effort as well.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Control I'd imagine, if upstream ever does something they don't want they can stop pulling the change downstream without having to migrate again to another tool internally, so easier to make that jump now ig

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